Why Are We Still Using Cash?

Why Are We Still Using Cash?

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It facilitates crime, bribery, and tax evasion — and yet some governments (including ours) are printing more cash than ever. Other countries, meanwhile, are ditching cash entirely. And if Star Trek is right, we won’t have money of any sort in the 24th century.